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They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.

Joni Mitchell

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Joni Mitchell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: November 7
Guitarist
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Roberta Joan Anderson
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Laughing and crying, you know it's the same release.
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Applause, applause, life is our cause.
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We'll laugh and toast to nothing, and smash our empty glasses down.
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I certainly don't want to be an angry old artist.
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I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it.
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I learned from admiration and osmosis.
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Just before our love got lost you said I am as constant as a northern star And I said, constantly in the darkness, Where's that at? If you want me I'll be in the bar.
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I get the urge for going/But I never seem to go.
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My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die.
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